Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo (1862)

Translated from the original French version by Isabel F Hapgood, Les Misérables is one of the most well known 19^th century novels.

Volume II - Cosette
Book First - Waterloo

Cosette in the Thénardiers' inn,
depicted by Émile Bayard (1837-1891)

• Brief plot synopsis
• Volume I - Fantine
• Volume II - Cosette
  • Book First - Waterloo
    • Chapter 1: What is met with on the Way from Nivelles
    • Chapter 2: Hougomont
    • Chapter 3: The Eighteenth of June, 1815
    • Chapter 4: A
    • Chapter 5: The Quid Obscurum of Battles
    • Chapter 6: Four o'clock in the Afternoon
    • Chapter 7: Napoleon in a Good Humor
    • Chapter 8: The Emperor puts a Question to the Guide Lacoste
    • Chapter 9: The Unexpected
    • Chapter 10: The Plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean
    • Chapter 11: A Bad Guide to Napoleon; a Good Guide to Bulow
    • Chapter 12: The Guard
    • Chapter 13: The Catastrophe
    • Chapter 14: The Last Square
    • Chapter 15: Cambronne
    • Chapter 16: Quot Libras in Duce?
    • Chapter 17: Is Waterloo to be considered Good?
    • Chapter 18: A Recrudescence of Divine Right
    • Chapter 19: The Battle-Field at Night
  • Book Second - The Ship Orion
  • Book Third - Accomplishment of the Promise Made to a Dead Woman
  • Book Fourth - The Gorbeau Hovel
  • Book Fifth - For a Black Hunt, a Mute Pack
  • Book Sixth - Le Petit-Picpus
  • Book Seventh - Parenthesis
  • Book Eighth - Cemetaries Take That Which is Commited Them
• Volume III - Marius
• Volume IV - Saint Denis
• Volume V - Jean Valjean
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